There will be many airguns out there that will shoot more accurately with cheaper rather than more expensive pellets so, as always, it's advisable to accuracy test with a wide variety of pellets.

The other reason for choosing cheaper pellets would be for pure plinking duties. If I only owned one rifle and was using it for a variety of different purposes, including fun plinking, I would, however, rather just stick to the pellet that I'd settled on for top accuracy, with the barrel being conditioned with them.


Anyone remember the Rod Linton pellet tests in the early days of AGW? I seem to remember that one of the most accurate rifle/pellet combinations was a Mercury being fed a diet of Marksman pellets.